Thursday, July 05, 2007

The Emerald City

We took Nuala and Bran on their second air trip, to Seattle, to meet another hoard of cousins and aunts and uncles. We only had a few days because I have a language test coming up and really couldn't miss too many days of espanol. So we headed out for a long weekend. Nuala and Bran were great on the planes, and loved meeting all the new family. They loved staying at Aunt Maria and Uncle Eldon's house where they had lots of cousins and a mountain of toys to play with.

They worked hard to taste all the toys at everyones houses but there were just too many and too little time. They were able to get some play time in with Poppy (Grandpa Rollins) and Grandma Buttons, and Nuala cut both of her first teeth while we were there.


The weather was great while we were there and so we were able to go on a hike to some water slides, but it was a still a little too cold to get in.


Nuala and Bran were also able to meet Auntie Tara, Fiona's youngest sister who was in Seattle for an internship. Really she was just there to check out guys and get brownie points to help her into Grad school, but really, like, what else are internships for? (Just kidding, Tara!)

We had a great trip, we only wish we could have stayed for longer!

~Zachariah

4 comments:

Gary Patrick Ricker said...

Liked your impression of Tara, Zach..pretty accurate. Looks like y'all had a good time. I bet Nuala and Bran loved seeing all the cousins. How did the language test go? See you both soon.

Anonymous said...

Hi F & Z & N & B.... they are great pics ....oh, and I clicked on them and saw them BIG ... WOW... they are SO GOOD and it was great to see them so lifelike... it was fun to see Zac's family too...so many cute little ones in that family pic. It was great to see the one with Tara too ... appears to be outside where you'd had lunch on the Monday. You all look so cute! Thanks for sharing...
Love, Mom (and Dad too) xox
p.s. Then I couldn't help myself...I went down the list and clicked on them all to see them BIG... (seems to me I remember you telling me that you'd figured out how to make that happen...)... when I got to one ...hmmm, I think it was June 27... of Nuala sitting...well, I noticed her right foot with her toes curled under...and it made me remember her mother when she was a baby, and a little bit bigger. Your toes could curl around anything...you used to climb up the door jams or anything and those little toes'd just curl around and hold you on.....bet ya don't remember that!!!!!:) :) :)

zachariah said...

She still uses those toes to scurry up rocks when she goes climbing, gets up all kinds of stuff I can't!

Anonymous said...

That hike looked amazing! How beautiful. Your daughter's adorable.